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News / Carbon & Climate

Scientists clarify starting point for human-caused climate change

...the later part of the 19th century as the point at which human activity started influencing the climate. But the new study brings that date forward to the 1830s. The study, published today in the jour...

25 Aug 2016

Scientists clarify starting point for human-caused climate change

A woman fills her container with water in India.

Opinion / Water

Pumped dry: India's invisible and accelerating groundwater crisis

...the crop yields compared to surface water. This is because groundwater irrigation gives the farmers more flexibility as to when to irrigate and the amount of water they can use because they have total...

17 Mar 2017

Pumped dry: India's invisible and accelerating groundwater crisis

News / Transport

Shipping pollution hotspots mapped with real-time data

...the year 2015. They found that three of the six most polluted harbours – Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai – are in Asia. The Malacca Strait, the Eastern China Sea and the Yellow Sea have the world’s...

31 Aug 2017

Shipping pollution hotspots mapped with real-time data

News / Cities

How to ensure children everywhere enjoy the ‘urban advantage’

...The New Urban Agenda, the 20-year strategy adopted at Habitat III, echoes the pledge made by world leaders when they agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. The urban-focused SDG 1...

9 Jan 2017

How to ensure children everywhere enjoy the ‘urban advantage’

Opinion / Cities

Can China meet its 2017 air quality goals?

...the north, and the Pearl and Yangtze deltas in the southeast – must lower PM2.5 levels by 15 per cent, 25 per cent, and 25 per cent respectively by the end of 2017. In Beijing, specifically, the avera...

1 Feb 2017

Can China meet its 2017 air quality goals?

News / Policy & Finance

Will changes to Indonesia’s mining law hurt or help the environment?

...the US company that operates one of the world’s biggest gold and copper mines in the province of Papua. Debate abounds about whether these policies are good for business. But are they good for the env...

2 Mar 2017

Will changes to Indonesia’s mining law hurt or help the environment?

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate treaty races towards hazy future

...the growing uncertainty about the viability of coal-fired power plants. But the architects of the Paris Agreement did acknowledge that there are gaps and inadequacies in the deal they struck. It invol...

7 Oct 2016

Climate treaty races towards hazy future

News / Carbon & Climate

Glitter or green? Sydney's big bash gives way to speed climate action

...the damage governments can do in a short time when they're in power. The clock is ticking (on climate change), we're aware there's so much to do and we're still fighting these battles," she said. The ...

15 May 2017

Glitter or green? Sydney's big bash gives way to speed climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

With colour-coded warnings, Indian city gets serious about dirty air

...ther environmental risk: air pollution. Ahmedabad, in the western state of Gujarat, has among the worst air pollution in the country. But it is the first to install an air monitoring and warning syste...

10 Jul 2017

With colour-coded warnings, Indian city gets serious about dirty air

In a rousing keynote address during the Singapore International Water Week’s Water Leaders Summit, former United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called for more global partnerships to tackle the world’s water problems.

News / Water

Top 10 moments from the Singapore International Water Week 2018

...the future Over the past 10 years, thousands of experts from across the world have shared their water innovations and technologies at the SIWW’s Water Convention to inspire others, advance the industr...

13 Aug 2018

Top 10 moments from the Singapore International Water Week 2018

News / Food & Agriculture

Is a property boom in Malaysia causing a fisheries bust in Penang?

...the second Penang bridge, which stretches 24 kilometers (15 miles) to the mainland from the island’s Southeast coast. Another reclamation scheme, known as the Seri Tanjung Pinang Project has also la...

24 Apr 2017

Is a property boom in Malaysia causing a fisheries bust in Penang?

News / Policy & Finance

SpongeBob SquarePants and the ‘last frontier’ of the Philippines

...the Philippines — including petition-launcher Anna Oposa, co-founder of the NGO Save Philippine Seas — the January 9 press release from Viacom was the first they heard of the project. Even officials s...

27 Feb 2017

SpongeBob SquarePants and the ‘last frontier’ of the Philippines

News / Water

Water is a human right, but who will deliver it?

...the people why the price has to be increased - because of the serious problem that Singapore is going to face in the future,” said Biwas. “We have to tell Singaporeans that the days when we open the t...

13 Mar 2017

Water is a human right, but who will deliver it?

News / Food & Agriculture

West Papua gives indigenous communities control over forests

...the province. Image: © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace The NGOs also helped the villagers set up an indigenous association, and worked with them to develop a plan for how to use the land, analyse th...

14 Mar 2017

West Papua gives indigenous communities control over forests

News / Energy

Indigenous communities resisting dams in Indonesia claim they face repression, rights abuses

...the communities to persuade the company not to pursue their activities within the villages’ traditional landholdings. Then, the situation reversed: The company reported the incident as an extortion at...

2 May 2017

Indigenous communities resisting dams in Indonesia claim they face repression, rights abuses

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Climate change—A repressed challenge

...the economic losses has been insured. The remaining losses had to be shouldered by the countries themselves and the people living there. There is hardly any financial protection available in emerging ...

12 Oct 2017

Climate change—A repressed challenge

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Some agricultural sectors can't just adapt to climate change—they must transform

...the fundamental nature of systems we rely on for food, water and jobs can be disruptive, expensive and difficult to implement. They also risk further marginalising the poor if they are excluded from d...

9 Nov 2017

Some agricultural sectors can't just adapt to climate change—they must transform

News / Food & Agriculture

Countries signed to UN-brokered illegal fishing treaty meet for first time

...The week-long meeting in Oslo “is expected to define the responsibilities of the concerned states as well as Regional Fisheries Management Organizations and other international bodies,” according to t...

31 May 2017

Countries signed to UN-brokered illegal fishing treaty meet for first time

Press Releases / Green Initiatives

Green Initiatives Wins AmCham Shanghai 2016 Annual CSR Awards

...the non-profit winner for the Innovation Award, while the corporate winner was given to Coca-Cola China. The winners for this category were decided through a public voting in which people participated...

4 Jan 2017

Green Initiatives Wins AmCham Shanghai 2016 Annual CSR Awards

Press Releases / Plant Warrior

Two entrepreneurs create world's healthiest protein

...the UK have just launched a Kickstarter Campaign, calling out to the public to help them raise the funds they need to launch their new start-up company, Plant Warrior. Their first product will be a h...

30 Nov 2016

Two entrepreneurs create world's healthiest protein

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